Word: biased
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...impressed on you its life will pass you by. This is so because there is no recognizable pattern here, no definite ideal to conform to. Henry Adams, who understood Harvard better than any man in the last century, said that the University left the mind "free from bias and docile," and he considered that an achievement...
...bowling-alley habitues, lawn bowls is a good summer substitute. Played with a 31-lb., lignum-vitae ball (weighted on one side to give it bias), the object of the game is to throw the ball (called "bowl") down a narrow green to land as close as possible to a previously thrown white ball (called "jack"). Although most good lawn bowlers play at clubs where velvet smooth greens have been coddled for years, many a rip-roaring bowling match has taken place on a private lawn. Scoring is similar to that of horseshoes. Sets (four pairs of bowls...
...publisher. From 1914 until 1925 he and his cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running of the Chicago Tribune (which their grandfather, Joseph Medill, had founded), and Patterson was as much responsible for the common touch in its news coverage as McCormick was for its conservative editorial bias. The two conceptions did not quite jell in the Tribune and Joe Patterson did not get along with his Cousin Bertie much better than he had with other rich boys. During the War they agreed that the Tribune was too small for them both. The decision to start the News, according...
...during the last decade is a fact that no well-informed U. S. citizen can truthfully deny. Yet the U. S. press has for the most part studiously, purposefully and almost universally ignored the subject. Though some segments of the press itself are not altogether free from anti-Semitic bias, its attitude in general has been a reflection of the belief of many influential Jews that to recognize anti-Semitism is to encourage it. Last week two publications made news by reversing this stand...
...interest, motivated incentive, and adequate epperceptive basis for understanding what is taught, and adequate opportunity to apply, test, and fix it through participating experience." Hutchins is not needed to point out that giving the student what he wants can be carried too far. Dr. Prosser, with his deadly scientific bias, has a mortal fear of what he calls "preachment," which he lumps together with "untried theories and mere factual learning" as the evils of traditional education. One can hope that his sterile, moral, practical youth never becomes an overwhelming reality...